My father, Ernest William (Bill) Goodwin, was a B-26 pilot in the US Army Air Corps from 1942-1946. He flew 73 missions out of Andrews Airfield at Great Saling, Essex with the 322nd Bomb Group. Raised in Iowa, the son of English immigrants, he went on to raise 7 children, (5 boys and 2 girls) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with 12 oak leaf clusters. Born 4 December 1916 in Des Moines, Iowa, he died 3 November 1997 in Salinas, California.